Lecture Notes: 06-28-04 NewRuskinCollege.com
Lecture Notes: 06-28-04 NewRuskinCollege.com
Exhortation to the deed. That is what the turn of the century radicals called it. President McKinley’s assassination, that was one of their deeds. Who exhorted? Marx first, then all the rest; an entire ecological system of philosophers, academics, journalists.
The purpose of the propaganda is to get someone to act. Act! Strike the blow.
When Senator Kennedy accused President Bush of concocting the Second Gulf War, “in Texas;” accused him of lying to the American people to start the war, he was exhorting the deed. If he is believed, if the war was simply the result of a lie, then certain moral judgments follow. And from those judgments certain acts follow. Is he believed?
The New York Times now admits that they misrepresented the 911 Commission’s recent staff report. They claimed “no connection” because they thought they could get away with it. Mr. Gore says one outlandish thing after another because he too thinks that he will be accepted. They are testing the limits. Each success acts as an exhortation to further extreme acts. This appears similar to what we call thinking, but note they are only “trying out” these ideas. They judge these ideas by your reaction, they are not really thinking.
I was not surprised that Mr. Bush (41) gave Senator Kennedy an award for “civic” service the week after the Senator’s accusation against his son. For Republicans words do not mean anything. They are not exhorting anyone to do anything. This obtuseness is not new. Recall Lenin’s remark that the rulers would sell him the rope with which he would hang them. Republicans just do not take it seriously.
This is why Republicans make such poor candidates. They implicitly accept that the world of ideas, debate, speechifying, has some relation to elective office, but just what, precisely, that connection might be, seems to elude them. An animal trainer once remarked that you can train wolves to play fetch, they will trot over and retrieve the object, but, unlike dogs, there is no enthusiasm, they do not understand the point of it all.
On the left things are quite different. Senator Kennedy exhorts us to regard the President as a liar. In his turn, Senator Kennedy is himself the object of other’s exhortations. Each in turn trying to out do the others. Not just Washington, but in Hollywood, the newspapers and network news departments, and at the universities, the game is: how left can you go? A corrupt vile elite, constantly exhorting itself to ever more extreme conduct.
And so we stand alone.
Proposition 109 was not a creation of the Republican Party. Two college professors, (Hayward State), having watched for years as one administrative position, one teaching position, one scholarship, after another was awarded based on the race of the applicants, finally, on there own, decided to do something. The great achievement of 109 is not, as most believe, that it stopped racial discrimination in state contracting and employment, rather it only stopped the left from openly talking about their discriminatory practices. They can no longer exhort one another to the deed. Get Whitey.
Stopping the ‘exhortation of the deed’ will not sound like much of an achievement to you, if you are a Republican, but some of us think it a triumph. However, my point is that if not for those two college professors at Hayward State, racial discrimination would be continuing to this day. It is called leadership.
On the left there is one more extreme statement after another. On the right? Silence.
Mr. Jones is running for the Senate in California. Hear that? See? Nothing.
He could run against the San Francisco Bay Area. He could make the whole Bay Area his opponent. (He is not likely to lose any votes here.) California currently does not have any United States Senators. 35 million people and not one Senator. Marin County has two Senators but California has none.
The Bay Area is losing jobs, is this what California wants? The Bay Area uses government to block new construction, is this what California wants? The average priced home requires an annual income $60,000 over what the average family earns in the Bay Area, is this what California wants? Marin County is growing older, and the population is falling, even as the government restrictions on home construction are increasing, and the employers are leaving too; this is what the Senators from Marin are doing to California.
No, Mr. Jones, is not exhorting us. In fact one wonders if the Republicans are not in league with the Democrats. Is the game fixed?
Or is it just that Republicans do not believe in anything? One millionaire after another runs for office on a platform of memememe. Why the Republican Party? Because it is convenient?
The Republican millionaire of the hour is Arnold Schwarzenegger. He ran for office in opposition to giving drivers licenses to illegals. Now the Sacramento power elite is preparing to do just that. President Bush himself recently proposed allowing anyone to bring in any immigrant to fill any job, in a proposal so poorly considered that it was immediately
abandoned by the White House. Who said that? We never heard about it. Someone heard him: illegal border crossings are up 30%.
Republicans tie themselves into these knots because they absolutely refuse to think. Leadership anyone? Why not say that the problem with illegals is that they are illegal? Why not legalize them?
Answer: because the American people want to control immigration.
Then in that case let us go to the American people and say that though we agree that we should control immigration we propose an exception:
Mexico is our neighbor and friend and they have a problem. Their population is going to double in the next 50 years. (40% of the population is under age 15.) That means they will have to build twice as many schools, hospitals, highways, etc. Twice as many of everything just to stay in place. Not to improve their standard of living but just to tread water.
The United States can help by increasing the number of immigrants over this period from Mexico. If we took in 50 million people, (only one million a year), this would mean that we would have to increase our highways, houses, schools, only 15%. Little Mexico would have to increase 50% to make room for the 50 million who stay home, but because we are so much bigger we would only need to increase by 15%. 50% is still a lot for little Mexico but that is much more doable than trying to double everything.
And as a matter of fact we would not have to build 15% of everything. For example we all ready have enough space in our schools, because our birth rate has declined. (To some extent all of these questions are moot due to developments taking place in Recombinant Genetics but that is another story.)
Now all of this has a name. It is similar to exhortation to the deed. It is, however, called leadership. “Exhortation to the deed” is part of a “dialectic process.” In a dialectic no one individual statement matters because the “truth” will emerge from the whole process and can not be contained in any one individual statement. So the left games the system by making the most extreme statement possible, i. e. that can possibly be accepted, by the gullible public.
We are both making statements about political circumstances, but our method is different. We consider questions, arrive at and publicly state our views, honestly. We are not part of a dialectic process. Mr. Jones, Mr. Schwarzenegger, lead!
This is why Ronald Reagan was so successful. He forced his opponents onto the horns of a dilemma simply by applying logic to the question. He forced them to choose. The problem with illegals is that they are illegal. Solution: make them legal. And force our opponents to choose. Either mass deportation, or make them legal. Do you see the logic?
Make them choose. One way or the other, but do something. Got it? Make mass education programs for the new immigrants, civics, history, language, and increased border controls in the future, part of the plan.
This is not just exhortation to the deed. There is a real thought here. A solution. Best of all no more “illegals.” Now everyone a citizen! Now go and lead.
Mr. Jones, do something.
NewRuskinCollege.com
Exhortation to the deed. That is what the turn of the century radicals called it. President McKinley’s assassination, that was one of their deeds. Who exhorted? Marx first, then all the rest; an entire ecological system of philosophers, academics, journalists.
The purpose of the propaganda is to get someone to act. Act! Strike the blow.
When Senator Kennedy accused President Bush of concocting the Second Gulf War, “in Texas;” accused him of lying to the American people to start the war, he was exhorting the deed. If he is believed, if the war was simply the result of a lie, then certain moral judgments follow. And from those judgments certain acts follow. Is he believed?
The New York Times now admits that they misrepresented the 911 Commission’s recent staff report. They claimed “no connection” because they thought they could get away with it. Mr. Gore says one outlandish thing after another because he too thinks that he will be accepted. They are testing the limits. Each success acts as an exhortation to further extreme acts. This appears similar to what we call thinking, but note they are only “trying out” these ideas. They judge these ideas by your reaction, they are not really thinking.
I was not surprised that Mr. Bush (41) gave Senator Kennedy an award for “civic” service the week after the Senator’s accusation against his son. For Republicans words do not mean anything. They are not exhorting anyone to do anything. This obtuseness is not new. Recall Lenin’s remark that the rulers would sell him the rope with which he would hang them. Republicans just do not take it seriously.
This is why Republicans make such poor candidates. They implicitly accept that the world of ideas, debate, speechifying, has some relation to elective office, but just what, precisely, that connection might be, seems to elude them. An animal trainer once remarked that you can train wolves to play fetch, they will trot over and retrieve the object, but, unlike dogs, there is no enthusiasm, they do not understand the point of it all.
On the left things are quite different. Senator Kennedy exhorts us to regard the President as a liar. In his turn, Senator Kennedy is himself the object of other’s exhortations. Each in turn trying to out do the others. Not just Washington, but in Hollywood, the newspapers and network news departments, and at the universities, the game is: how left can you go? A corrupt vile elite, constantly exhorting itself to ever more extreme conduct.
And so we stand alone.
Proposition 109 was not a creation of the Republican Party. Two college professors, (Hayward State), having watched for years as one administrative position, one teaching position, one scholarship, after another was awarded based on the race of the applicants, finally, on there own, decided to do something. The great achievement of 109 is not, as most believe, that it stopped racial discrimination in state contracting and employment, rather it only stopped the left from openly talking about their discriminatory practices. They can no longer exhort one another to the deed. Get Whitey.
Stopping the ‘exhortation of the deed’ will not sound like much of an achievement to you, if you are a Republican, but some of us think it a triumph. However, my point is that if not for those two college professors at Hayward State, racial discrimination would be continuing to this day. It is called leadership.
On the left there is one more extreme statement after another. On the right? Silence.
Mr. Jones is running for the Senate in California. Hear that? See? Nothing.
He could run against the San Francisco Bay Area. He could make the whole Bay Area his opponent. (He is not likely to lose any votes here.) California currently does not have any United States Senators. 35 million people and not one Senator. Marin County has two Senators but California has none.
The Bay Area is losing jobs, is this what California wants? The Bay Area uses government to block new construction, is this what California wants? The average priced home requires an annual income $60,000 over what the average family earns in the Bay Area, is this what California wants? Marin County is growing older, and the population is falling, even as the government restrictions on home construction are increasing, and the employers are leaving too; this is what the Senators from Marin are doing to California.
No, Mr. Jones, is not exhorting us. In fact one wonders if the Republicans are not in league with the Democrats. Is the game fixed?
Or is it just that Republicans do not believe in anything? One millionaire after another runs for office on a platform of memememe. Why the Republican Party? Because it is convenient?
The Republican millionaire of the hour is Arnold Schwarzenegger. He ran for office in opposition to giving drivers licenses to illegals. Now the Sacramento power elite is preparing to do just that. President Bush himself recently proposed allowing anyone to bring in any immigrant to fill any job, in a proposal so poorly considered that it was immediately
abandoned by the White House. Who said that? We never heard about it. Someone heard him: illegal border crossings are up 30%.
Republicans tie themselves into these knots because they absolutely refuse to think. Leadership anyone? Why not say that the problem with illegals is that they are illegal? Why not legalize them?
Answer: because the American people want to control immigration.
Then in that case let us go to the American people and say that though we agree that we should control immigration we propose an exception:
Mexico is our neighbor and friend and they have a problem. Their population is going to double in the next 50 years. (40% of the population is under age 15.) That means they will have to build twice as many schools, hospitals, highways, etc. Twice as many of everything just to stay in place. Not to improve their standard of living but just to tread water.
The United States can help by increasing the number of immigrants over this period from Mexico. If we took in 50 million people, (only one million a year), this would mean that we would have to increase our highways, houses, schools, only 15%. Little Mexico would have to increase 50% to make room for the 50 million who stay home, but because we are so much bigger we would only need to increase by 15%. 50% is still a lot for little Mexico but that is much more doable than trying to double everything.
And as a matter of fact we would not have to build 15% of everything. For example we all ready have enough space in our schools, because our birth rate has declined. (To some extent all of these questions are moot due to developments taking place in Recombinant Genetics but that is another story.)
Now all of this has a name. It is similar to exhortation to the deed. It is, however, called leadership. “Exhortation to the deed” is part of a “dialectic process.” In a dialectic no one individual statement matters because the “truth” will emerge from the whole process and can not be contained in any one individual statement. So the left games the system by making the most extreme statement possible, i. e. that can possibly be accepted, by the gullible public.
We are both making statements about political circumstances, but our method is different. We consider questions, arrive at and publicly state our views, honestly. We are not part of a dialectic process. Mr. Jones, Mr. Schwarzenegger, lead!
This is why Ronald Reagan was so successful. He forced his opponents onto the horns of a dilemma simply by applying logic to the question. He forced them to choose. The problem with illegals is that they are illegal. Solution: make them legal. And force our opponents to choose. Either mass deportation, or make them legal. Do you see the logic?
Make them choose. One way or the other, but do something. Got it? Make mass education programs for the new immigrants, civics, history, language, and increased border controls in the future, part of the plan.
This is not just exhortation to the deed. There is a real thought here. A solution. Best of all no more “illegals.” Now everyone a citizen! Now go and lead.
Mr. Jones, do something.
NewRuskinCollege.com
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